Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Introduction: On reading masterpieces of philosophy in a changing world / John K. Roth -- The analects of Confucius / Confucius -- Bhagavad Gita / Unknown -- Democritus : fragments / Democritus of Abdera -- Euthyphro / Plato -- Apology / Plato -- Crito / Plato -- Phaedo / Plato -- Republic / Plato -- Metaphysics / Aristotle -- Ethica Nichomachea / Aristotle -- Politics / Aristotle -- Meng tzu / Mencius -- Chuang tzu / Chuang Chou -- Principle doctrines and letter to Menoeceus / Epicurus -- Tao te ching / Unknown -- De rerum natura / Lucretius -- Discourses ; and, Manual / Epictetus -- Outlines of pyrrhonism / Sextus Empiricus -- The city of God / Saint Augustine -- The platform scripture of the Sixth Patriarch / Hui-neng -- Crest jewel of wisdom / S'ankara -- The book of salvation / Avicenna -- Monologion ; and, Proslogion / Saint Anselm of Canterbury -- Incoherence of the incoherence / Averroës -- Summa theologica / Saint Thomas Aquinas -- William of Ockham : selections / William of Ockham -- The prince / Niccolò Machiavelli -- Novum organum / Francis Bacon -- Meditations on first philosophy / René Descartes -- Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Pensées / Blaise Pascal -- Ethics / Benedictus de Spinoza -- An essay concerning human understanding / John Locke -- Of civil government : the second treatise / John Locke -- Theodicy / Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz -- Three dialogues between Hylas and Philonous / George Berkeley -- A treatise of human nature (Book I) / David Hume -- An enquiry concerning the principles of morals / David Hume -- The social contract / Jean Jacques Rousseau -- Dialogues concerning natural religion / David Hume -- Critique of pure reason / Immanuel Kant -- Foundations of the metaphysics of morals / Immanuel Kant -- An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation / Jeremy Bentham -- Phenomenology of spirit / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- The word as will and idea / Arthur Schopenhauer -- The philosophy of history / Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel -- Philosophical fragments / Søren Kierkegaard -- Concluding unscientific postscript / Søren Kierkegaard -- Essay on liberty / John Stuart Mill -- Utilitarianism / John Stuart Mill -- The methods of ethics / Henry Sidgwick -- Thus spake Zarathustra / Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche -- Beyond good and evil / Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche -- Marx : selected works / Karl Marx -- The will to believe / William James -- The world and the individual / Josiah Royce -- Principia ethica / George Edward Moore -- The life of reason / George Santayana -- Creative evolution / Henri Bergson -- Pierce : collected papers / Charles Sanders Pierce -- Pragmatism / William James -- Ideas : general introduction to pure phenomenology / Edmund Husserl -- Tractatus logico-philosophicus / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Human nature and conduct / John Dewey -- I and thou / Martin Buber -- Being and time / Martin Heidegger -- The quest for certainty / John Dewey -- Process and reality / Alfred North Whitehead -- The right and the good / William David Ross -- The logic of scientific discovery / Sir Karl R. Popper -- Philosophy and logical syntax / Rudolf Carnap -- Language, truth and logic / Alfred Jules Ayer -- An inquiry into meaning and truth / Bertrand Russell -- Being and nothingness / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Phenomenology of perception / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Zen Buddhism / Daisetz T. Suzuki -- The rebel / Albert Camus -- The courage to be / Paul Tillich -- Philosophical investigations / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Word and object / W.V.O. Quine -- How to do things with words / J.L. Austin -- Theory of justice / John Rawls

Examines and summarizes nearly 100 influential works through critical essays that focus on their themes and major points

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